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Launch of publication: Road from Rio +20: Towards Sustainable Development Goals


22 September 2014
Palais des Nations
Geneva
, Switzerland

Two years after the 2012 Rio+20 Conference, UNCTAD is pleased to announce the launching of its publication entitled of "The Road from Rio+20: Towards Sustainable Development Goals".

This publication is the fourth in a projected series that is part of UNCTAD's contribution to the Rio Conference and its outcome.

This fourth issue provides insights into the SDGs process of implementing a key outcome of the Rio Conference as reflected in its outcome document, “The Future we want” (para 246), namely, to define a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) that reflect in a balanced way, the economic, social and environmental dimension of sustainable development.

The publication is a collection of articles from renown authors on promoting progress towards a more sustainably oriented global economy and trading system. One term that comes up again and again in the Rio +20 Conference Declaration, entitled The Future We Want is an "enabling environment".

This edition covers various aspects of this "enabling environment". It takes the reader beyond the watershed moment of Rio+20 to investigate what critical issues would have an impact on sustainable development and related policies and strategies – and how all social and economic actors, in particular environmentalists, can contribute.

All four volumes have successfully cooperated with Mr. Yann Arthus-Bertrand and the Good Planet Foundation, a Foundation whose objectives are to raise public awareness of ecology, making it a central issue, and to inspire a desire to take positive action. Other professional environmental photographers such as Tom Resse also contributed to the issue.

UNCTAD has also been cooperating closely in all issues with agencies, including the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and with NGOs.

It is hoped that the examples and case studies contained in the Fourth volume of the "Road from Rio" series will provide inspiration to UN member States and stakeholders in their reflections on what the future SDGs should look like and how they might be implemented.

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